Recent content by Philthy

Mrs Philthy has agreed to an upgrade for our sat receiver. We are going down the HD route, and I would also like to be able to connect the box to the internet ;) Obviously there is a difference in price, but that isn't really an issue. From what I can gather, loading different images onto either...

It seems I've no problem pulling in the verticals, but I'm just under the fringe for the horizontals with a 1.1m. Bugger ! got all excited then ;)

Just checking now, but think you are right :( I just manually set 11.766 H and I'm not seeing anything. I've glimpsed this transponder before, so thought it useful to try and latch on again.

I've been tweaking :) I changed the motor control to diseqc this morning, and fine tuned one of the lower power verticals. I then did a blind scan, and picked up a couple of horizontals. I fine tuned these, and scanned again. I've managed to lock onto 14 horizontals, signal quality is between...

Thanks for the replies guys. One of his walls is roughly south facing, and quite high, so line of site shouldn't be an issue, even on a wall mount. He wasn't that bothered about what sort of football (or didn't seem to be), just wanted a good selection. I zap through any football I see when...

A mate of mine called round the other day, and was very impressed with my setup. His first question was "can you get much football on it?". As the only way I would watch football, would be to tie me to a chair and cut my eyelids off, I couldn't answer him. He isn't fussed about the commentary...

It was the first dish I ever installed myself. At the time, I stupidly thought it would work inside the room :) It made it much easier when I hung it out of the window :-rofl2

I see your 18 year old, and raise you 20 ;) I'm not certain when it was fitted, but do know it was up before I moved abroad for a while in early 1990. The dish spent the last 16-17 years ish, buried in my parents garage. It is fitted with a quad lnb to feed my motorised system, and my daughters...

I think the only problem you would have, would be if you want to look beyond 45E. My guesstimation, from your pics, is you will be fine from the top of a step ladder, with the added bonus, that it will make your install easier. If you are happy to install from the top of a ladder go for it, but...

Position 1 looks pretty good. I concur with Robbo that it looks south facing (almost perfectly so). With a good T&K mount, you should be able to see 45W no problem, and as far as I can tell from the pictures, as much east as you'd like to go? It's difficult to tell from the pictures, but I'd...

I checked nilesat last night. I'm getting 168 channels, all on the vertical transponders. I did notice while scanning, that I am seeing a 45% ish signal from some of the horizontals. It was windy, and the dish would have been moving about a bit I'm sure. I will have a go at tweaking it with the...

Thanks for your comments guys :) Yup, line of sight not really an issue. I will be taking the western guy rope off at some point, or modding it, and looking past 53W, that is of course, if there is anything worth looking at? Any pointers? Nilesat doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm still doing a...

Thought I'd better get some pics of my new setup posted. I could have gone the T&K route on the chimney breast, but as it is a quite exposed location, thought it would be better to sneak a look over the top of it. The dish is parked on 1W Thor in these photos. I could pick up 53W before I put...

Bulgarian friends of mine brought over a subscription, and STB for their local provider. I got them set up with a 90cm static. The signal is stable, but only just over the threshold I believe. I wouldn't want to go any smaller. We're in Devon by the way.

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